Hiring Caught the Symptom. Identity Is the Disease.

The post discusses industrialized identity fraud enabled by generative AI — deepfakes, synthetic resumes, voice-cloning and stolen identities — citing a DOJ prosecution of a DPRK-linked scheme and Anthropic’s report as proof the economics of forging identity have flipped. It argues the enterprise trust model built on isolated verification moments (interviews, KYC checks, badge swipes) is no longer sufficient and calls for continuous, multi-channel identity verification across email, voice, video and onboarding workflows.